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UPMC McKeesport
McKeesport, PA
UPMC McKeesport was founded in 1894 and is a nonprofit acute care
community hospital that serves the 200,000 residents of McKeesport and the surrounding
area. The hospital offers an array of health care services including intensive care,
cardiac care and ongoing rehabilitation and educational programs for patients with cardiac,
neurologic, and orthopaedic diagnoses. UPMC McKeesport is a teaching hospital, with residency
programs in both family practice and internal medicine. The hospital's merger with UPMC
Health System in April 1998 provides access to UPMC's state-of-the-art diagnostic and
interventional capabilities and its extensive roster of specialists. The resources of UPMC
have allowed UPMC McKeesport to enhance its care services to the community.
UPMC Cancer Center at UPMC McKeesport
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
(UPCI) have partnered with community-based hospitals throughout the region to develop UPMC
Cancer Center, one of the largest integrated community networks of cancer physicians and health
care specialists in the country. UPMC Cancer Center at UPMC McKeesport allows patients to receive
the highest level of cancer care without having to leave their communities. UPMC Cancer Center at
UPMC McKeesport offers an array of cancer care treatment services, diagnostic services, and cancer
care services, including, but not limited to: Biological Therapy Administration, Chemotherapy
Administration, Radiation Therapy administration, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Computerized Tomography,
Medical Sonography, Nuclear Medicine, Bone Marrow Aspiration, Bone Marrow Biopsies and Bone Marrow Smears.
Patient Population
The Radiation Oncology Community Outreach Group (ROCOG) is comprised of five institutions
including: UPMC McKeesport Hospital, Jameson Memorial Hospital, UPMC Lee Hospital, Mercy Hospital,
and Somerset Hospital/West Penn Allegheny Cancer Center. ROCOG is simultaneously targeting two
major populations at great risk for cancer care disparities - the isolated, rural poor and the
inner city African American (and poor) communities.
This institution was awarded a five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute. The project
title is UPMC McKeesport/ROCOG Radiation Oncology Minorities Outreach Program. Read an excerpt of
the proposal below:
A number of barriers, both real and perceived, tend to hinder the recruitment of patients,
and by extension, minorities and poor people into clinical oncology trials at community centers.
Project goals include increasing clinical compliance, protocol recruitment and protocol retention
within these populations, operationalizing a collaborative model of community-based research, testing
the efficacy of patient identification, engagement and outreach models and using a comprehensive
outcomes measurement system to ensure care quality and monitor treatment disparities.
Equipment installed at this site: Full TELESYNERGY(R) system using off-the-shelf software on a Windows XP Workstation.
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